Lifelong
Education and Training
Goal Team
Welcome to LearnNet,
the FCC's informal education page. "Technology has great power to enhance
education. The FCC is working to bring every school in America into the
information age. LearnNet is about important FCC policy and education initiatives.
Join the dialogue to help spread the benefits of technology to schools and
libraries nationwide."
Funding, Investment, Accountabilities
The FCC laid down some broad
policies of affordability on its
The has information
on applying for State Grants, meeting the Technology Literacy Challenge,
and the 1995 Survey of Advanced Telecommunications in U.S. Public Schools.
contains more than 1600 two-page research syntheses, in a searchable database. These digests are short reports on educational topics of prime current interest, targeted specifically for teachers, administrators, policymakers, and other practitioners.hosted a workshop to discuss the issues.
More than 30 two-page research syntheses were added last month to a "full-text searchable" database in our Online Library. This database now offers a total of more than 1,666 such syntheses (known as "ERIC Digests").
LearnNet is about important FCC policy and education initiatives. Join the dialogue to help spread the benefits of technology to schools and libraries nationwide.
A new program to support technology in education received $200 million in the fiscal year 1997. State education agencies receive grants from the U.S. Department of Education after developing statewide plans for financing educational technology, collaborating with outside partners, and assisting those schools with the highest poverty & greatest need.
The Department of Education promotes the use of technology in schools, libraries, and communities to achieve its mission of ensuring equal access to education and promoting educational excellence throughout the nation.
In an attempt to answer the question, "What is the future of networking technologies for learning," the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Educational Technology commissioned a series of white papers on various aspects of educational networking and
A public-private partnership to create a community linked learning and information system that will provide all Americans with equal access to the education, training, and information required for life-long learning, developing new skills, and creating innovative products
Practical, Universal Networking for Learning in Schools and Homes -- A Report for School and Community Technology Planners and Policymakers - This report, published jointly by The Center for Information, Technology & Society and The Educational Products Information Exchange Institute, is designed to be a useful tool for those school and community decisionmakers who may agree with the goal of networking, but who are concerned about the practicality of achieving it for their schools and communities.
This national study demonstrates that students with online access perform better. The study, conducted by the Center for Applied Special Technology and sponsored by the Scholastic Network and Council of the Great City Schools, isolates the impact of online use and measures its effect on student learning in the classroom. The study compared the work of 500 students in fourth-grade and sixth-grade classes in 7 urban school districts (Chicago, Dayton, Detroit, Memphis, Miami, Oakland, and Washington DC) - half with online access and half without.
This kit gives you the tools that fostered success for the Education and Libraries Networks Coalition at the national level. Adapt its components to fit your state's needs, share them with media and other key audiences, and use them as a resource to develop letters, presentations, etc.
Speech on March 1, 1997 by Reed Hundt, Chair, FCC, before the Princeton Club of Washington. Rate information about Oregon cities is mentioned.
The Aurora Community Educational Consortium is the mechanism by which Mayor David Pierce has brought together the various public and private schools in Aurora to work on projects promoting education throughout the community. The Consortium created the Aurora Online Community Network as the primary method to improve community access to computer technology. The city used riverboat gaming revenue to purchase a personal computer and Internet access for every public and private school in the city as well as public access terminals for the public library, Waubonsee Community College's downtown campus, and the local science museum. All of these computers are linked together through Aurora University who hired a person to direct the program, provide Internet training for teachers and create an on-line information network for the community. The city is providing a three-year grant to cover the costs of personnel and training.
Congress has mandated that students enrolled in courses delivered through the use of telecommunications be treated the same as students enrolled conventional (i.e. "face-to-face") courses when it comes to the awarding of student financial assistance under the Title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (Act).
The Telecommunications Act of 1996 contains a number of provisions that clearly affect the use of telecommunications and information services by schools, colleges and universities, ranging from the imposition of liability for allowing minors access to "obscene and indecent" material on interactive computer networks to the creation of a regime of special rates for certain classes of providers of educational and medical services. The Act also creates new distribution options, opportunities for cost savings and, perhaps most important from the perspecting of institutions, radically transforms the competitive landscape. This memorandum examines key aspects of the Act of particular importance to higher education institutions.
A sampling of the technology data from Quality Educational Data including: Technology Purchasing Forecast, 1996-97; Technology in Public Schools; Educational Technology Trends; and, Internet Usage in Public Schools. Educational Technology by State - http://www.qeddata.com/sttech.html Chart containing information on Computers, Multimedia Computers, and OnLine statistics for schools in every state. The QED Education Network - EducationNetwork.com Quality Education Data (QED), the country's leading provider of educational research and databases, announced today the introduction of The QED Education Network- a landmark initiative which is the first nationwide program to gather data directly from K-12 teachers and administrators about school quality, course offerings and teachers by subject area.
The United States Distance Learning Association is a non-profit association formed in 1987 by Patrick Portway, Dr. Smith Holt of Oklahoma State University and Dr. Ralph Mills of California State University. The association's purpose is to promote the development and applicaition of distance learning for education and training. The constitutents we serve include K-12 education, higher education, continuing education, corporate training, and military and government training.